Questions about uninstalling softwares in Ubuntu, or uninstalling Ubuntu from a computer.
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How to remove desktop environments?
I installed few environments that I wanted to try out on Ubuntu 12.04, but none of them worked at all. It could be that I installed them all at the same time, meaning the OS didn't get a chance to ...
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How can I remove the default application indicators, like the power or the volume indicator, in Unity?
After installing a bunch of new application indicators, I realized that I was using a lot of the top-bar space, and wanted to get rid of some default indicators to have more space. Is this somehow ...
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Are any programs not safe to uninstall?
As we know, Ubuntu comes with a lot installed on it. Many of them I either don't know what it does or just don't use. Which applications are safe to uninstall? I use mainly the basic stuff, FireFox, ...
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Synaptic remove “gedit” wants to remove “ubuntu-desktop”. How can I reinstall “gedit”?
I want to make a clean start with gedit; ie. remove all customization.
Synaptic Package Manager, indicated that ubuntu-desktop would also be removed!
Well, that sounded to be a bit on the ...
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How can I completely remove xfce4 when apt-get remove --purge doesn't work?
Starting with a Ubuntu server, I wanted a window manager, so I installed xfce4.
I used
sudo apt-get install xfce4
to do this. To remove it, I used
sudo apt-get remove --purge xfce4
which ...
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Fixing Broken Packages
I'm new to ubuntu, but it seems this is very much OK than bloody Windows. Last day I tried to install Kget (the download manager) but during the process my computer suddenly stop working. So I had to ...
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How can I uninstall a nvidia driver completely ?
As expected, Nvidia drivers have reduced my customizations. I can't login to Unity 3D session. I can't find any content to help me to uninstall the driver and I don't know what to do as I have never ...
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How to completely remove firefox so it won't update?
I really don't like firefox, so the first thing I did after installation was install chromium as a browser and removed firefox via terminal using:
sudo apt-get remove --purge firefox
But every time ...
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How to properly remove Packages
I would like to uninstall some packages, but I find that after I run the sudo apt-get remove <package-name> command I still have log files or other types of files running around, is there a way ...
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Is it safe to uninstall thunderbird?
Actually I don't want it, I also don't want to install any updates of Thunderbird.
So, whenever new updates available to download, I will manually deselect it from downloading.
Thanks
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Can I uninstall Compiz if only using Gnome-Shell?
I already know that I can uninstall Unity if I'm using Gnome-Shell exclusively, but I'm also wondering if it's safe to uninstall Compiz when I'm only using Gnome-Shell, since as far as I know, ...
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How can I uninstall a locale via command-line?
I have 5 unused locales on my system. How can I remove them via command line? I have use localepurge but it didn't work.
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Find package name using terminal
Hello I want to remove software (for example transmission) using Terminal. How can i find the package name for the software ?
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What's the equivalent of “add or remove programs” in Ubuntu?
I wanted to install the plugin TeXlipse (installation instructions) and for that I am supposed to remove any previous version of it. Maybe the eclipse GUI is sufficient to achieve this end.
What's ...
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How to completely remove ALL flavours of Ubuntu from Ubuntu Studio
Er, this may be crazy, I installed all flavours of Ubuntu (Ubuntu Desktop, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Mythbuntu) onto my computer. Now I want to completely remove ALL to get back my Ubuntu ...
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Completely Remove LXDE/Lubuntu Desktop Environment
I've install LXDE on my laptop due to Unity's disappointing performance. But now, I want to completely remove LXDE including it's entire list of programs that came installed with it. How do I go about ...
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Where are my installed applications?
I have installed skype in ubuntu but duuno where to start the installed the skype application .Similarly I have installed netbeans and many applications but after installing them their icon's are not ...
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Why removing Amazon also remove other packages?
If I want to uninstall the Amazon WebApp that comes by default in the newest versions of Ubuntu, it ask me to remove other software as well. As you can see in the next picture, it is forcing me to ...
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How to create Windows XP LiveUSB using Ubuntu to replace it
I am using an Acer Aspire One netbook with no CD-disk drive, and would like to uninstall Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and install Windows XP in its place. The problem here is that I can't seem to find a program ...
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Removing Ubuntu without losing Windows XP
I had a 160 GB hard disk with Windows XP. Then I installed Ubuntu 11.10 64bit. But I didn't knew anything about disk partition. After installation, I only have C drive with 20 GB in xp and about 40 GB ...
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How do I remove the Youtube Unity lens?
I installed the Youtube scope and lens using these commands in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/lenses
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yavol scope-youtube
Every ...
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What does it mean “Processing Triggers for…” after installing/Uninstalling?
When i uninstalled a deb package i get this:
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
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How does one remove applications installed through “python setup.py install”?
I have two applications that I attempted to install, but they didn't work and now I can't get rid of them. They were both installed through sudo python setup.py install so there aren't any actual ...
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Detecting packages that i am not using to uninstall them
I've been using ubuntu for almost four years now. I am pretty sure there are many applications and packages i never use (like empathy, for example) and i would like to know which ones they are.
Is ...
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Can I completely remove Gnome and leave xmonad?
I've installed xmonad. I'm trilled with it. I can now use it as my one and only WM. I'm just wondering is it going to work without problems if I totally remove Gnome.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.
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Removing unneeded graphical drivers?
I have an Intel GMA 4500M graphic card. In synaptic package manager I found out that there are a bunch of installed packages for nvidia and ATI. I was wondering if I can remove these packages since I ...
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Why does removing Firefox install another browser?
I want to remove firefox (with sudo apt-get purge firefox*) but without installing the epiphany browser. how to do it?
PS : I want to remove firefox becouse I want to use and only use google-chrome ...
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sudo apt-get remove does not remove config files
I'm new to Linux/Ubuntu - and i'm wondering if the behaviour I'm seeing is as designed. I have installed vsftpd -
sudo apt-get intstall vsftpd
I then remove -
sudo apt-get remove vsftpd
...
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4answers
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How do I uninstall Ubuntu Wubi?
I want to uninstall Ubuntu because i just don't like it... I have windows 7 and no boot disk or anything special to uninstall, when i installed Ubuntu it said easy to uninstall and i would love to ...
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How to uninstall PostgreSQL installed from .run file?
I am a new Ubuntu 12.04 user and I'm using 64bit.
This morning I installed Posgresql 9.2 from the graphical installer (not from Ubuntu repository) . Now I want to uninstall it, but I don't know how.
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How to uninstall manually installed Nvidia drivers?
How do I uninstall manually installed Nvidia drivers 310.14 and revert to Noveau. I have Ubuntu 12.10.
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How do I remove kubuntu-full and all it's applications?
I'm running 12.04 - I installed kubuntu to try it out and realized that with all the bloatware applications that I didn't want it anymore - I was able to uninstall the kubuntu-desktop but there are ...
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How to cleanly remove a badly installed .deb?
Whenever I try to use dpkg or apt-get, I get the warning:
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 12674 package 'jarnal':
error in Version string 'build901': version number ...
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How do you uninstall Unity? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can you remove Unity?
I've been trying to find out how to uninstall Unity for a couple days now and I really wish there was just an uninstall option somewhere... ...
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How can I remove Ubuntu from my dual-boot and replace it with another distribution?
In Windows XP, I right click on my computer, select manage → Disk management, right click on the Ubuntu partition and choose Delete logical drive.
Can I remove Ubuntu like this? If not please suggest ...
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Will removing Windows also remove Wubi? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Ubuntu rely on Windows if I install it using the Windows installer?
I installed Ubuntu via Ubuntu Windows Installer 12.04, but now I want to remove Windows on my ...
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How to uninstall a program installed through Wine
I installed Picasa 3.9 with Wine, but I did not like it, and now I want to delete it.
I tried uninstalling Picasa with the option from Picasa help menu but it didn't work.
How do I fully ...
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Which is the best method to install/uninstall apps in Ubuntu?
While apps can be installed with the apt-get command, Synaptic Package Manager or Ubuntu Software Centre, can anybody throw some light on which is the best method? I recently installed kubuntu-desktop ...
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Will mono be carried forward by upgrading to 12.04?
I plan to upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 when 12.04 is released.
I noticed from my previous experience in upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10, that Synaptic, which was dropped in 11.10, was retained on my ...
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How do I completely uninstall Google Chrome and Chromium?
I'm having a problem with Chrome and one of its extensions, so I want to completely uninstall everything. I've uninstalled Chrome through the Software Center, but when I reinstall it, all of my ...
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Find out what packages were installed with a particular package?
I have a simple question.
When you install a package using apt-get install, oftentimes, it will install several dependency packages as well as the main one. I was wondering if there is a way to ...
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How to remove Oracle JDK
I didn't find article any related articles How to remove Oracle JDK there are some related articles but they didn't solve the problem.
I installed Oracle JDK tarball file from Oracle site by ...
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How to uninstall OpenOffice?
I want to completely remove open office from my system. What packages do I need to uninstall to remove it completely?
I am using Ubuntu 10.10.
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What's the name of PPA? (for ppa-purge)
I'm testing PPAs, so I commonly use ppa-purge, that restores my default versions. But I always have problem with the ppa name. What do I need to put as argument for ppa-purge?
I always used my ...
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How do I remove the Ubuntu boot option created by Wubi?
My friend installed Ubuntu on a separate partition on a PC with Windows 7 using Wubi. But by mistake he reformatted the drive containing Ubuntu. He is still getting Ubuntu option in the boot menu. How ...
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How to remove all i386 packages from Ubuntu 64bit?
Over the time I installed many i386 packages, which I no longer need. How can I clean up the system and stay only with the amd64 packages?
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How to do the windows equivalent of “format C:”?
Bought a second hand laptop with no OS. Installed Ubuntu and have been running it now for about a year without any problems. Now need to use more windows applications (childrens educational ...
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Confusion about git; how to undo?
I wanted to install some source code that was on git. Don't really know what that means ; I've never used git before, but I figured it was time to learn so,
I first installed git.
Next I tried to ...
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How to uninstall VMware Player 4.0.3 on 12.04?
I installed VMware Player 4.0.3 on Ubuntu 12.04. When I try to run an image, I get errors such as "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory. or "~/.vmware/config": No such file or ...
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how do I uninstall Dropbox
After booting up a popup screen tells me Dropbox did not install correctly but it is lurking somewhere.
To install properly I first have to delete the incorrect install. I'm using latest Ubuntu.
